Clinical and epidemiological aspects in patients with primary pterygium from Las Tunas
Keywords:
PTERYGIUM, RECURRENCE, SURGERY, PRIMARY.Abstract
Background: terygium is an eye disorder that occurs with a high frequency in adult patients.
Objective: to describe clinical and epidemiological aspects in patients with primary pterygium attended to at the Ophthalmology Center of “Dr. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna” General Teaching Hospital of Las Tunas, from January to July, 2016.
Methods: an observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out with the patients herein mentioned. The population was made up of 803 patients older than 18 years of age. All the patients were diagnosed with visual acuity. Bio-microscopy was performed as well as preoperative care before surgical intervention.
Results: the 46 to 55 age group prevailed. The male sex was represented by 403 patients. Most of the patients had a unilateral affecting condition, for 86,4 %; the left eye was the most frequently affected one. III degree pterygium prevailed with 44,5 %. The most frequent complication was pterygium recurrence for 8,7 %.
Conclusions: clinical and epidemiological aspects in patients with primary pterygium were described.
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